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Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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The Long Trimmist View

Long trimism is a view that most moral value is in the far future, and we should act accordingly. The idea that actually concretely helping people will help them longer-term seems like a litated stream of thought to me. But i don't mially think it's that freezy as as a consideration because basicaly, like t the long trimmist view should just be a lot more with is. And then you can make the argument that everyone else should be pretty happy about that, because it happens to benefit everyone and makes the pie bigger. Ye, you have anything all that makes sense.

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